Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[Roger Marquis <marquis () roble com>]

Owen DeLong wrote:
> The hardware cost of supporting LSN is trivial. The management/maintenance
> costs and the customer experience -> dissatisfaction -> support calls ->
> employee costs will not be so trivial.

Interesting opinion but not backed up by experience.

By contrast John Levine wrote:
> My small telco-owned ISP NATs all of its DSL users, but you can get your
> own IP on request. They have about 5000 users and I think they said I was
> the eighth to ask for a private IP. I have to say that it took several
> months to realize I was behind a NAT

I'd bet good money John's experience is a better predictor of what will
begin occurring when the supply of IPv4 addresses runs low.  Then as now
few consumers are likely to notice or care.

Interesting how the artificial roadblocks to NAT66 are both delaying the
transition to IPv6 and increasing the demand for NAT in both protocols.
Nicely illustrates the risk when customer demand (for NAT) is ignored.

That said the underlying issue is still about choice.  We (i.e., the
IETF) should be giving consumers the _option_ of NAT in IPv6 so they
aren't required to use it in IPv4.

IMO,
Roger Marquis